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His story is not unique and very similar to many other stories of the people who come to ADC Memorial for help.

On September 22, 2009 during the Federal Migration Service raid in the Roma settlement near Saint Peresburg, Anna Lakatos, Pavel Gabor and Aladar Forkos – Roma-magyars born in Beregovo, Carpathian Ukraine – were arrested as having no documents. Pavel Gabor…

Annually Roma children from the settlement in Peri make wonderful performances on International Roma Day. Usually these concerts are organised in the Leskolovo culture centre. Colourful Roma dances, songs and performances attract many people. This year the young Roma prepared…

This year my Roma friends invited me to Sablino to celebrate the Easter. As always on this day, there were lots of music and people.

During our 15 years of cooperation with the Belarusian Human Rights Center “Viasna”, we have known our colleagues and partners – human rights defenders from Viasna – as outstanding, brave and honest professionals. This counts in particular for Ales Bialiatski,…

In June 2011 three citizens of Tajikistan came to ADC Memorial with the complain that their passports were illegaly taken by their empoloyer – director of an enterprise in Sosnovy Bor. The applicants worked at the sawmill near the railway…

On the occasion of the 48th Session of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of May 2011, the Anti-Discrimination Center (ADC) “Memorial” presents an update to its 2009 report “Discrimination and Violation of Roma Children’s Rights In Schools…

The 60th anniversary of victory over fascism has just been celebrated. May 9 is a special day for the Romani people. This people, proclaimed “racially inferior” by Hitler’s pseudo-scientists, was destined for annihilation. Among the Nazis’ victims were half a…

As it is well-known, Russia is a member of the Council of Europe and actively signs and ratifies many conventions and agreements obligating Russia to ensure that the rights and freedom of its citizens are protected. The same protections apply…

Under the general title of “socially significant diseases” the following ones are normally listed: tuberculosis, sexually transmitted infections, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), malignant neoplasms, pancreatic [insular] diabetes, mental disorders and postural deformities, high blood pressure….